REFLECTIONS LOFT

The idea started when my 4 year old son Humza kept asking me everyday since mid-September “How many more sleep until Halloween?” It got to me after awhile, so I thought of creating an advent calendar for Halloween. As I searched the web, I came accross this and  this. I used an 18×24 canvas from Michaels for $8.99 (2/pk), cut orange felt to 2.5×2.75, hand stitched the border with black embroidery floss and glued to the canvas coverd with black felt. I only glued 3 sides of the orange (almost square) felt to create a pocket. Each pocket will have a piece of paper (like from the fortune cookie) that will give them daily fun surprise until the “Spooky” day. My favorite part when creating this project was painting the numbers to the color of my choice and embellishing the project with the help of my boys. They were so amazed, excited, and very appreciative since they saw how hard I worked plus they helped create it too. It was a very FUN project. I created these 2 advent calendars in 3 days.

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